The Oxford Handbook of Participation in Organizations

by Wilkinson, Adrian; Gollan, Paul J.; Marchington, Mick; Lewin, David

• ISBN13: 9780199693733
• ISBN10: 0199693730
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2012-01-13
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Summary

Employee participation encompasses the range of mechanisms used lo involve the workforce in decisions at all levels of the organization-whether direct or indirectùconducted with employees or through their representatives. In its various guises, the topic of employee participation has been a recurring theme in industrial relations and human resource management. One of the problems in trying to develop any analysis of participation is that there is potentially limited overlap between these different disciplinary traditions, and scholars from diverse traditions may know relatively little of the research that has been done elsewhere. Accordingly in this book, a number of the more significant disciplinary areas are analysed in greater depth in order to ensure that readers gain a belter appreciation of what participation means from these quite different contextual perspectives.

Author Biography

Adrian Wilkinson is Professor of Employment Relations and Director of the Centre for Work. Organisation, and Well-Being, Griffith University.

Table of Contents

List of Figures	p. x
List of Tables	p. xi
Abouh the Contributors	p. xiii
Introducion
Conceptualizing Employee Participation in Organizations	p. 3
Perspectives
An HRM Perspective on Employee Participation	p. 29
An Industrial Relations Perspective on Employee Participation	p. 52
A Legal Perspective on Employee Participation	p. 76
Labour Process and Marxist Perspectives on Employee Participation	p. 105
An Economic Perspective on Employee Participation	p. 131
Forms of Participation in Practice
Direct Employee Participation	p. 167
Collective Bargaining as a Form of Employee Participation: Observations on the United States and Europe	p. 186
Employer Strategies Towards Non-Union Collective Voice	p. 212
Worker Directors and Worker Ownership/Cooperatives	p. 237
Employee Participation Through Non-Union Forms of Employee Representation	p. 258
Works Councils: The European Model of Industrial Democracy?	p. 286
Employee Share Ownership	p. 315
Financial Participation	p. 338
Processes and Outcomes
Labour Union Responses to Participation in Employing Organizations	p. 361
Voice in the Wilderness? The Shift from Union to Non-Union Voice in Britain	p. 383
High Involvement Management and Performance	p. 407
Employee Voice and Mutual Gains	p. 427
Policy and Comparative Issues
Participation Across Organizational Boundaries	p. 455
Public Policy and Employee Participation	p. 476
Corporate Governance and Employee Participation	p. 504
Cross-National Variation in Representation Rights and Governance at Work	p. 526
Employee Participation in Developing and Emerging Countries	p. 552
International and Comparative Perspectives on Employee Participation	p. 570
Freedom, Democracy, and Capitalism: Ethics and Employee Participation	p. 590
Index	p. 609
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